Jill Murray

My produce of the week on Torontoist is the garden-variety apple. There are all kinds of interesting facts about apples to be read, like the fact that if you take the seeds from an apple and plant them, you will get a tree that produces apples that in no way resemble or taste like the apple you got them from. But for facts like that one, you’ll need to read Michael Pollan’s The Botany of Desire, ’cause my article doesn’t so much have facts as it goes like this:

If, like Torontoist, you spent the first third of the fall season desperately clinging to the last brittle twigs of summer, you may have awoken this morning, panicked that the best of autumn has already passed you by. They gave away the pumpkins last week. Thanksgiving is over, and you were too busy pretending to enjoy that last windblown patio beer to even notice. What of your dignity? Why did you not cling to that instead, you may be asking yourself?

Well cringe no more! Emerge from the nightmare of Toronto’s soggy creep into winter and understand that many breeds of apple, including Fuji, Mutsu, Red Delicious, Northern Spy, Golden Delicious, Idared and Crispin peak in late fall and stay peaked to winter and beyond.